Heritage Memory Titles for Scrapbooking

I make my mother an album of our vacation every year with her grandchildren highlighted. This year it will be a little harder as not all of the kids came on vacation :( So, I think I will start her 12x12 album - the one I do is usually 6X6. I need to do her a 12X12 that I can add to as I have a some pictures just dying to go into pages for her. Some of them are heritage, so here are a few old fashioned titles I dug up:

• Treasured Memories
• Family Ties
• Way Back When
• In the Good Ol' Days
• Blessed be the ties that bind

How many 5X7 mats can you get from one 12x12 sheet?

The answer is 4, you just have to cut very carefully! Check it out: Get Four 5X7 Mats Out of One 12X12 Sheet

Scrapbooking Contest Information - Paper Crafts Contest

Paper Crafts Contest
https://www.papercraftsmag.com/contests/contest_details.ihtml?contest_id=58

Enter to win Shadow Stamps Collector's Edition sets from Hero Arts! Enter by Sept. 26th, just fill in the form, nice and easy.

I love these contests, but remember to check off the 'I do want' or the 'I do not want' newsletter and info options. I already get most of these, so I click that.

Scrapbooking fun: CK Trick-or-Treat Sweepstakes

I love these things! So simple, just fill in the form once - and only once or you're disqualified. Here is the link to the form:
http://www.creatingkeepsakes.com/contests/files/contest.115.html

Scrapbooking Tips: Organizing Photos to Scrapbook

You'll need a shoe box, index cards and zip quart size baggies. Go through the pictures separating them by layout. Place one layout set of pictures in each baggie with an index card that has the date, the event, and some tidbits of information about it. When you are ready to scrapbook, grab a baggie and go! Be sure to keep baggies you have emptied in your shoe box for re-use.

Tips for Scrapbooking Back to School Layouts

There is a mound of things you can scrapbook for back to school for kids of all ages. Here are just a few tips for these types of scrapbooking layouts:

1. Get a picture of what they wore to school the first day.
2. Scan in this year's class schedule, print it out on acid free cardstock.
3. Get a quote from your child answering this qustion: 'Why I'm looking forward to ________ grade."
4. Save letters from the teachers in a pocket page.
5. Scrapbook the class list.
6. Important information for these pages: teacher and class names, the book lists(high school), school name and address.
7. Where is their locker, scrap a pic of your teen at their locker. Use a school hallway map to point to where it is located.
8. Cool character lunch box? Get a picture and scrap what your child's favorite lunch is.

Have any more ideas? Leave them as comments!

Better Homes and Gardens/Scrapbooks Etc Calling For Spring LOs!

Two themes - Easter and Spring - is what BH&G is looking for right now. Here is the Nitty Gritty:

• pays $100.00 for 1 page LOs that are published and $150.00 for 2 page LOs that are published
• email submissions@meredith.com with 'Mar/Apr Reader's Gallery' in the subject line
• only two submissions per theme allowed!!
• DO NOT use competitors products in your LOs - no CK
• Deadline for this call is Oct 1st 2005

GOOD LUCK! Let me know if you get it!

See how BEAUTIFUL!

I could probably sit in this spot for a full day... just pondering or seeing different images in the clouds. This is a picture of Eagle Lake, Maine.

Back from Paradise!

Went on THE best vacation. Visited my parents up in northern Maine. WOW! is it beautiful up there. Plus I got to play with some new sizzix dies that my Aunt Judy had. And I ordered some Stamping Up from my Aunt Janet. Like I said... THE perfect vacation!